Refuge: The Art of Belonging
This exhibition tells the story of artists who entered Britain between 1933 and 1945 as a result of Nazi occupation
Free – £7.70
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Abbot Hall Art Gallery Kendal, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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The Mad Silkman: Zika & Lida Ascher: Textiles and Fashion
The Museum of Decorative Arts 17. listopadu Street No.2, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech RepublicThe story of Zika and Lída Ascher who left Czechoslovakia before the outbreak of WW2 and built a textile empire in the United Kingdom which supplied fabrics to the international fashion industry from the 40‘s.
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Anya Lewin: More than Stories: A Film Trilogy
John Hansard Gallery 142-144 Above Bar Street, Southampton, United KingdomMore than Stories is an exhibition comprising a trilogy of films inspired by Anya Lewin’s family photographs and stories, and their interconnections with history and public archives. Each film has at its heart the haunted memories of Jewish life embedded in a particular story passed down to Lewin by her father.
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The Gift of Music: Cosman Collection
Royal College of Music Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, Prince Consort Road, London, South Kensigton, United KingdomThis evening of art, music and history celebrates the donation to the Royal College of Music of Milein Cosman’s collection of drawings of musicians.
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Looking beyond the Bauhaus: Reform not Revolution
The Gallery 70 Cowcross Street, London, London, United KingdomModernism sans frontières
Speaker: Kathleen James-Chakraborty
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Lifelines – an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Milein Cosman
Clare Hall Herschel Road, Cambridge, CambridgeThis exhibition presents some of Milein Cosman’s renowned images of musicians, writers and artists, including her husband, Hans Keller.
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The Merzspiel
Theatre by the Lake Studio Theatre by the Lake, Lakeside, Keswick, Cumbria, United KingdomKURT SCHWITTERS has hijacked the body of British actor PAUL BRIGHTWELL in order to re-present MERZ, his one-man art movement, live on stage
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Jewish History Month 2019
The theme of this year’s Jewish History Month is Big Screen Little Screen, Jews in British Cinema and Television.
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Albert Reuss in Mousehole
Penlee House Gallery & Museum Morrab Road, Penzance, Cornwall, United KingdomInterior II (Stones and Wood), oil on canvas, 1971, by Albert Reuss Penlee House Museum and Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall The Artist as Refugee This exhibition commemorates Albert Reuss (1889-1975) who was a Jewish émigré artist. Born in Vienna, he fled to England in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution, losing family, possessions and his reputation as […]
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Britain and the British in Novels and Memoirs
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomLecture given by member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, based at the Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London
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Aspects of Exile – Lecture Series
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomSeries of lectures, organised by the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies, at the University of London’s Institute for Modern Languages Research
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Looking beyond the Bauhaus: Bauhaus Goes West
The Gallery 70 Cowcross Street, London, London, United KingdomModernism sans frontières
Speaker: Alan Powers
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George Adams – Bauhausler in Britain
The Isokon Gallery Lawn Road, London, United KingdomFeaturing the work of George Adams (1904-1983).
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Jewish Book Week
Kings Place 90 York Way, London, United KingdomAurelia Young, daughter of the sculptor, will be in conversation with art historian Patrick Bade.
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Modernist Hampstead Walk
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomDiscover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
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Poetry Book Display
The National Poetry Library Level 5, Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, United KingdomA display of books by eleven poets from the National Poetry Library collection of refugee poets, or descendents of refugees, who came to Britain from Nazi Europe
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Being Second Generation with Gaby Glassman
JW3 341-351 Finchley Road, London, United KingdomMore than 70 years after the Holocaust, children of survivors and refugees will explore together how it has affected their lives.
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Book Launch, Hans Keller 1919-1985: A musician in dialogue with his times
Guildhall School of Music and Drama Silk Street, London, City of LondonAlison Garnham and Susi Woodhouse present their new centenary biography of Hans Keller, in an evening of music and readings. On Hans Keller’s birthday itself, the Belcea Quartet perform Haydn’s Op.76 No.2 and Britten’s Third Quartet (which Britten dedicated to Keller).
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René Halkett – from Bauhaus to Cornwall
Falmouth Art Gallery Municipal Buildings, The Moor, Falmouth, Cornwall, United KingdomOn the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Bauhaus, this exhibition showcases the work of one of its students, René Halkett (1900-1983), who studied under the renowned artists Klee and Kandinsky.
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Words: Insiders / Outsiders
Kings Place 90 York Way, London, United KingdomWords: Jewish Book Week. Anna Nyburg, Daniel Snowman and Monica Bohm-Duchen. Insiders/Outsiders examines the extraordinarily rich contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe to the visual culture, art education and art-world structures of the United Kingdom.
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Looking beyond the Bauhaus: Optimism and aging
The Gallery 70 Cowcross Street, London, London, United KingdomModernism sans frontières
Speaker: Rachel Rose Smith
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Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Exhibition
The Aram Gallery 110 Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London, United KingdomDuring the mid-1930s and 1940s the Isokon flats and bar became a hub for creatives, including Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy. The three produced furniture, architecture and graphic art for Jack Pritchard’s Isokon design company.
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Recollections of Hans Keller
Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London, United KingdomStudy day and concert celebrating Hans Keller’s centenary, featuring discussion with musicians who knew Keller, a music workshop, film showing and concert by the Elias Quartet.
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Haunted by History
Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square, London, United KingdomA selection of recent essay films – poignant, thought-provoking, sometimes darkly humorous and frequently disturbing – made by UK-based members of the so-called ‘Second Generation’, namely, the children of refugees from Nazi Europe and/or Holocaust survivors, whose work explores the complex and necessarily problematic legacy of their families’ experiences.